Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106610
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1106562
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106557
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 1343231
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 277409
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 275685
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1353505
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1353485
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1353425
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1353424
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 339201
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 263529
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 260291
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 203075
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 883917
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 585693
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 649864
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 860763
Ricordi Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 683335
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 389688
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 903834
for: Mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 141959
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 861580
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 347655
for: Male choir
Piano score
Item no.: 1342429
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 216820
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678373
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904277
for: 4 voices [mixed choir], (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255495
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 294717
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923740
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 159678
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 888677
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 323846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 851074
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 850987
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850552
for: Women's choir, flute
Score
Item no.: 850498
for: Mixed choir (SMezAATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850451
for: Mixed choir (SSAAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850448
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850293
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822667
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822633
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 466336
based on the play "Uncle Vania" by A. Tchekov
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274633
for female chorus and chamber orchestra to a poem by Sándor Weöres
for: Women's choir (SMezA), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274632
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 256464
Opera in 3 acts op. 32
Libretto from M. Vörösmarty's drama by the composer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 256338
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